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Hypothesis: Homologous recombination depends on parallel search

Other Quantitative Biology 2016-08-25 v1

Abstract

It is not known how a cell manages to find a specific DNA sequence sufficiently fast to repair a broken chromosome through homologous recombination. I propose that the solution is based on a parallelized search implemented by freely diffusing molecules programmed with sequences corresponding to those flanking the break site.

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@article{arxiv.1608.06924,
  title  = {Hypothesis: Homologous recombination depends on parallel search},
  author = {Johan Elf},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1608.06924},
  year   = {2016}
}

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